Kremlin: Russia is still ready to negotiate with Ukraine

according to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the spokesman of the Russian Presidential Palace, Dmitry Peskov, said on Tuesday that Moscow is still ready to negotiate with Kiev and prefers to meet its demands through a political and diplomatic path to achieve.

This senior Russian official said in an interview with RTVI, “The president has repeatedly said that it is important for us to achieve our goals. And of course, we prefer to do this through political and diplomatic means. That’s why we are still ready to talk.”

Pskov repeated that “it was the Ukrainian side that left the negotiation process incomplete in the spring of 2022. They themselves have admitted that this was done at the insistence and order of the British. So the situation is completely clear”.

Russia started its special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The two sides had several rounds of talks in the early stages of the war, but the negotiations eventually reached a dead end.

In the situation that Ukraine only suffered casualties in counterattacks in recent months More than 90,000 people, the country’s chief negotiator in the Istanbul peace talks, David Arakhamia, recently revealed that Moscow was ready to end the war in March 2022 if Ukraine accepted neutrality and pledged not to join NATO.

He continued his speech in line with the May 2022 report of a Ukrainian newspaper about the role of England in derailing the peace negotiations in Istanbul, adding that during the negotiations, The then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kiev and told the Ukrainian authorities to “continue the war and not sign any agreement with Moscow”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin also presented the draft of this agreement in June this year, which shows that the war, which is in its 21st month, in The first few weeks were peaceful. Putin said that as soon as Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital in the first few weeks of the war as a show of goodwill, Ukraine withdrew from the agreement.

Meanwhile, in a new poll, forty-four percent of Ukrainians said their government should seek a negotiated solution to the war; While 48 percent said the war should continue.

The lowest level of support for negotiations in the same poll was recorded in February and January with 35 percent. While the highest level of support was in March 2022 with 69 percent right after the start of the conflicts. The highest rate of rejection of negotiations with 60% was in June 2022 and also in February and June 2023. End of message/T 1930